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Karoly Says Fierce Aussie Weather a Warning to the World

Submitted by radioecoshock on Wed, 30/01/2013 - 3:06pm

Our opening guest this week on Radio Ecoshock is Dr. David J. Karoly. He's been a lead IPCC author and advises the Australian government through the Climate Change Authority. After a stint teaching Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, Karoly is now at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne.

DAVID KAROLY INTERVIEW DOWNLOAD MP3
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http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/climate2013/ES_Karoly.mp3

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Time to cease expansion of coal to reduce climate change says Ad

Submitted by takver on Mon, 14/01/2013 - 12:17pm

Prominent scientists and environmental organisations have published a full page ad in Monday's Australian Financial Review calling for the cessation of the expansion of coal exports from Australia.

Background: Read Melbourne University Associate Professor Peter Christoff's article on Why Australia must stop exporting coal. Or watch this 2010 lecture by Dr. Guy Pearse from the University of Queensland on Queensland's coal addiction | Greens Leader says 'Look at the damage to humanity caused by people who bankroll coalmines' | Australian Heatwave part of global warming trend says IPCC head Pachauri

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Greens Leader says 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'

Submitted by takver on Thu, 10/01/2013 - 12:39pm

Jonathon Moylan's ANZ Bank hoax letter over the Maule's Creek Project open cut coalmine continues to produce reverberations. Greens Leader Christine Milne has now come out in his support arguing that we are in a climate emergency and we need to have a very serious 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'. Independent Economist Rod Campbell implies that the real hoax being perpetrated on small and institutional investors in Whitehaven coal is by Gillespie Economics and NSW Planning Department who massively overestimated the benefits and underestimated the social, environmental, health and climate costs of the project.

Related: ANZ Stop the Loan e-petition

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Burning the future

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/01/2013 - 5:58pm

Opens with a review of record heat and fires in Australia. Is coal destroying the country? Plus the under-reported monster storm in the Philippines, and Mexican gangs investing in coal.

Download/listen to Radio Ecoshock Show
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130109_Show_LoFi.mp3

Then I chat with one of the best environmental journalists, Mark Hertsgaard. Mark just wrapped up key articles for The Nation magazine and recently Newsweek.

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Uncovering the real hoax: ANZ Bank greenwash while financing coal and climate change

Submitted by takver on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 11:24pm

For a moment farmers, conservationists and climate campaigners in the north west of New South Wales thought one of the big four banks - the ANZ Bank - was living up to it's sustainability charter and taking a lead: acting ethically with regard to not destroying agricultural land, maintaining biodiversity and preventing climate change.

A media release purportedly from the bank said it was withdrawing it's $1.2 billion loan for Whitehaven for development of a new coal mine at Maules Creek on agricultural and forrested land near Narrabri, New South Wales. Further, the letter said that "ANZ is currently undertaking a review of coal and gas investments on productive agricultural lands and areas of high biodiversity."

But it was not to be.

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Coal protest: activists scale Yallourn power station cooling tower

Submitted by takver on Tue, 18/12/2012 - 8:08pm

Late last week two intrepid climate change activists scaled one of the cooling towers at Yallourn coal fired power station in Victoria's La Trobe Valley. In the end they spent 30 hours on the cooling tower, the longest power station occupation of it's kind in Australia, finally coming down voluntarily to be arrested and charged with various offences. The protest highlighted the enormous multi-million compensation being given by the Australian Government to power operators for the imposition of the carbon tax. The brown coal fired power stations in Victoria's La Trobe valley are some of the dirtiest most carbon emissions polluting power stations in Australia and the world.

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Electric vehicles powering in Australia - Canberra fest this weekend

Submitted by Jane A Salmon on Fri, 30/11/2012 - 3:02pm

Media Release - 30.11.2012 - please circulate widely.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE POWERING ON

International Electric Vehicle Festival comes to Canberra CBD
http://www.electricvehiclefestival.com.au/

The International Electric Vehicle Festival will be held in downtown Canberra in City Walk (Civic) next to the merry-go-round on December 1st 2012, demonstrating the potential for these vehicles to be sustainable transport options.

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Martin Ferguson rebuffs Coal CEO Twiggy Palmcock in launching Energy paper

Submitted by takver on Fri, 09/11/2012 - 3:59am

While Federal Resources and Energy minister Martin Ferguson was launching a white paper on energy, the press conference was interrupted by that scallywag Victorian Coal CEO Twiggy Palmcock who thanked the Minister for his support of the fossil fuel industry.

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Tony Abbott rebuffs Victorian coal mining magnate Twiggy Palmcock

Submitted by takver on Sat, 03/11/2012 - 10:03pm

Did you hear that Tony Abbott got heckled at Melbourne University the other day during his red tape speech? Actually it was just two young coal businessmen keen to meet their hero! Yes, Victorian mining magnate Twiggy Palmcock, CEO of Excretum Mining and sidekick Michael Higgins Beaumont, founder of Australia's Young Coal Champions, who were both keen to meet their hero and leader of the Liberal Party .

They attended the Secure the Future Conference to thank Tony Abbott personally for his "unwavering support of the fossil fuel industry".

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Video: Newcastle residents protest health effects of proposed 4th coal terminal

Submitted by takver on Sun, 30/09/2012 - 10:29pm

Newcastle residents and activists protested the lack of consideration of health and climate change effects in the proposed building of a fourth coal terminal at the port of Newcastle, already the world's largest coal port. A peaceful protest and 'lockon' occurred outside The office of NSW Minister for Planning Brad Hazzard last Thursday who is due to consider the merits of the proposal.

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